There will never be any universal standards because somewhere, somehow someone will have one grudge or another over a contributing company, a group of programmers, "pure" Linux enthusiasts, so on and so forth. For example, Canonical announces the Mir display server and then everyone decides, "Hey, let's all get behind Wayland" after sitting on their thumbs for years. Canonical announces Snap packages, then everyone is harping, "Flatpak, AppImage, Orbs". Free as in freedom vs freedom as in beer, Owncloud vs Nextcloud, Debian vs Devuan, Gnome vs KDE vs XFCE vs LXDE vs Mate.

This is exactly what I have been wanting for a long time. I have tried Android desktop implementations like Remix OS and Phoenix OS, but the one thing I wanted was the desktop version of the Chrome Browser along with my Android apps. This is where I felt Android would have severely suffered as a desktop OS, all the apps would be mobile apps. With Chrome OS, we get the best of both worlds, especially when Android N comes along with support for multi-windows. With N, Android apps can become resizable instead of being locked into their mobile aspect ratios. This will make Chrome OS a full-fledged desktop operating system.

The Gnome Footprint is the ugliest logo ever. If you are going to make your own distro, please do some custom branding to make it your own. I don't see anything quite unique from any other distro on the block.

Yeah everyone loves choice, freedom and diversity but eff Unity, Upstart and Mir because we all hate Canonical. Right??? If people really love diversity, then use what you love and don't tear down what you don't like.

Wayland development had slowed to a crawl for several years, but once Canonical announced Mir....all of a sudden click, click, click everyone started tapping away again. You don't think so? Look back at many articles Pre-Mir announcement and see how at the current rate, Wayland wouldn't be able to replace X for another 20 years, if ever.

"I'm trying to think of anything on my machine that Ubuntu has done that has actually been implemented - it's not Mir, it's not Upstart, Unity is practically un-runnable on anything else, Pulseaudio may have gotten improvements from the Ubuntu camp, I don't know."

I've sen videos of many companies and organizations running Ubuntu ie....Ford, NASA, universities, Schools, etc....and they are all running Unity. The Linux circles may whine, bitch and moan about choice and variety but when it comes down to consumers, they use Ubuntu with Unity with no problems whatsoever. It...just...works.